When you hear the phrase "based on a true events" in the horror world, you often wonder how much was actually "true". Most often times it turns out only the slightest sliver of the film had anything to do with real life. Sometimes a film comes along that takes an honest set of horrifying events and can turn it into a suspenseful horror story. This is where Borderland, one of After Dark HorrorFest 2007's"8 Films to Die For", comes in. While the whole plot isn't true, it is based of an actual murder that took place in 1989. Director Zev Berman takes the main details from the disappearance and murder of a college student in 1989 and effectively turns it into a suspenseful horror/crime drama filled with plenty of bloody mayhem.

Borderlands opens with two Mexicans police officers invading a house. They get inside only to find their killers gone and lots of sacrificial cult materials. Suddenly the two officers are attacked and one is forced to watch the gruesome murder of his partner as part of a satanic "sacrifice". He is kept alive so he can "tell everyone what he saw".

Borderlands then skips to the story of three friends in Texas about to graduate college and move on to pursue further eduction/careers. Before they are done they decide to take the short trek from their are of Texas to a small Mexican town just across the US/Mexican border. It seems as though they want nothing more but to have one last weekend of drinking, drugs and sex before they move forward with their lives.